On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:13 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:07 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:34 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> It would be really great to have UI in our preferences to select a > different keyboard shortcuts preference. This would be a nice low > hanging fruit task. Has anyone started this?
Well, when we originally discussed this I thought that we had decided that we didn't really want a UI for it as to discourage it's use. Really, we want people to use Inkscape as Inkscape, not to encourage their use of a crutch. Same thing with the menus XML file.
That makes sense...still good to have them there...would we be against a patch? I think the more switchers the better...
I'm not against distributing the different key bindings with the Inkscape binary.
--Ted
Hope I'm not adding any fuel to the fire here, but I've been working with an alternate set of key bindings for the past month that I've built specifically for my illustration work. The bindings are based on a concept (not the layout) from the animation software Toon Boom Studio. The idea is that the left hand never leaves the keyboard and the right hand never leaves the stylus. From my own experience, it's quite a lot faster to draw this way. :) I just committed the bindings for this, so feel free to try it out if you're into doing drawing or illustration work with a tablet.
John